A good place to find educational podcasting ideas is http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/
Here you'll be able to find a podcasts created by other educators.
Below are a few ideas from a book called The Macintosh iLife '08 in the Classroom by Jim Heid. This book has a great overview of the iLife suite, as well as some great lesson ideas in the back of the book.
Math Podcast Idea: Create a "Problem-of-the-Week" podcast to help students better understand how to solve a particular math problem
ELA Podcast Idea: Create a Poetry Slam podcast in which students will record themselves reading poetry and possibly enhancing the poems with images
OR
Have students practice reading and recording any sort of text and analyzing their level of fluency and comprehension
Music Idea: Create a musical piece using Magic GarageBand (or just playing real or software instruments in GarageBand) and have the students alter things like tempo and type of instrument to understand composition and interpretation.
ELA or History/Social Science (or could possibly be any other content area):
Create a classic (or modern) radio show about a particular topic and have students speak different parts in the show. This could be anything from an old radio dramatization, or a modern news show covering a particular story and interviewing important politicians, celebrities, etc. Or to keep it simple, it could just be simple commercials or public service announcements
Paula Wilson's Digital Storytelling Ideas
These are ideas in various content areas that Paula has developed for her digital storytelling class.
What are you some of your ideas? Feel free to list below (please include your name) or in the discussion forum.
Ideas from Summer 2009 Session:
Lisa, Gayle, Marina: ELL Group
Janet, Elaine, April:Agassiz Group
Karen, Margery, David, and Felicia:
Patricia, Connie, PK:
Ideas from Spring 2009 Session:
High School
-Creating subplans. Assignments, create something and pass it in.
- Using it for students who aren't there. Great to have something 1x/day or end of a unit as a review for people that have missed days
- Difference when using with students. Eval'ing students, create a podcast based on some content area. Exemplary ones could be put online.
- Snapgrades. Can upload files in this. Can put assignments in this. Any size limitations in snapgrades
Elem. Art/Music
- Radio show like on WGBH Radio. Half hour long literacy piece. Have children voice over music while it's running. Create a CD at the end, or mp3 file.
- Art projects where a certain artist is studied. Bio of a particular artist.
Elem. possibly creating movies
- Intro on a unit as a motivator. Pics, sounds, to get them interested in the unit.
- Culminating activity shared with parents. Short, three min. video discussing things they have learned on a specific topic (in this case, the Arctic)
Elem. other cool stuff
- Social studies with photos. American landmarks, Revolutionary War
- Lesson to be used with kids. Elements of a story.
Podcasting Ideas
A good place to find educational podcasting ideas is http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/Here you'll be able to find a podcasts created by other educators.
Below are a few ideas from a book called The Macintosh iLife '08 in the Classroom by Jim Heid. This book has a great overview of the iLife suite, as well as some great lesson ideas in the back of the book.
Math Podcast Idea: Create a "Problem-of-the-Week" podcast to help students better understand how to solve a particular math problem
ELA Podcast Idea: Create a Poetry Slam podcast in which students will record themselves reading poetry and possibly enhancing the poems with images
OR
Have students practice reading and recording any sort of text and analyzing their level of fluency and comprehension
Music Idea: Create a musical piece using Magic GarageBand (or just playing real or software instruments in GarageBand) and have the students alter things like tempo and type of instrument to understand composition and interpretation.
ELA or History/Social Science (or could possibly be any other content area):
Create a classic (or modern) radio show about a particular topic and have students speak different parts in the show. This could be anything from an old radio dramatization, or a modern news show covering a particular story and interviewing important politicians, celebrities, etc. Or to keep it simple, it could just be simple commercials or public service announcements
Paula Wilson's Digital Storytelling Ideas
These are ideas in various content areas that Paula has developed for her digital storytelling class.What are you some of your ideas? Feel free to list below (please include your name) or in the discussion forum.
Ideas from Summer 2009 Session:
Lisa, Gayle, Marina: ELL Group
Janet, Elaine, April:Agassiz Group
Karen, Margery, David, and Felicia:
Patricia, Connie, PK:
Ideas from Spring 2009 Session:
High School
-Creating subplans. Assignments, create something and pass it in.
- Using it for students who aren't there. Great to have something 1x/day or end of a unit as a review for people that have missed days
- Difference when using with students. Eval'ing students, create a podcast based on some content area. Exemplary ones could be put online.
- Snapgrades. Can upload files in this. Can put assignments in this. Any size limitations in snapgrades
Elem. Art/Music
- Radio show like on WGBH Radio. Half hour long literacy piece. Have children voice over music while it's running. Create a CD at the end, or mp3 file.
- Art projects where a certain artist is studied. Bio of a particular artist.
Elem. possibly creating movies
- Intro on a unit as a motivator. Pics, sounds, to get them interested in the unit.
- Culminating activity shared with parents. Short, three min. video discussing things they have learned on a specific topic (in this case, the Arctic)
Elem. other cool stuff
- Social studies with photos. American landmarks, Revolutionary War
- Lesson to be used with kids. Elements of a story.
We mentioned in class the idea of using podcasts by older students to help younger students learn to read. Check out what what of my English teacher colleagues has done with some of her students:
http://latinacademy.org/teacher/lutyens/MsLutyensSite/Ms._Lutyens/Podcast_Project/Podcast_Project.html
(added by Richard Freed)